9 Summer Smoothies

It’s the middle of summer, and things are really starting to heat up. Here at Blendtec, one of our favorite ways to cool down, is with a refreshing smoothie. So we decided to gather some of our favorite Blendtec smoothie recipes and share them with you. Some you’ve probably tried before, others might be new; give one, or all nine a try.

Hi! I'm Blendtec's Content & Community Manager. I love working at Blendtec. The people and environment are great; and it doesn't hurt that I get to taste test most all of the recipes we put on our site. Yum!
When I'm not blogging, I'm spending time with my husband and little boy. We love to camp, hike, play sports, and fish (I read while he fishes). We also enjoy spending time with both of our families since we live so close to them.

(14) Comments on “9 Summer Smoothies”

Kelly I need some help making up smoothies and you seem to be very creative! I can’t do all the sugar that a base of apple juice or orange juice gives, what else can I use? Is there a formula for replacing ice cubes with frozen fruit? I also don’t like the green base smoothies but struggle with too much sugar in the all fruit ones, any suggestions?
Thanks Kelly!

Hi Jen,
You can always use water as your liquid base, and there is not formula for replacing ice cubes with frozen fruit, you can usually just leave the ice out if there’s frozen fruit already in the smoothie. I don’t really have any suggestions for moving away from the green base smoothies, except that I use spinach, not a lot, because the taste is mild, and you usually can’t taste it with the fruit in the smoothie.

I am having a difficult time finding recipes for a diabetic. Nearly all smoothie recipes have way to much sugar. Can you help me out? What about some ‘Paleo Diet’ type recipes? Thanks for your consideration.

Thank you for the juice recipes! I’ve been tring to juice more often. Is there any chance you could send some all vegetable ones to me? Right now I just add water to whatever veggies I have on hand! LOL. Thanks!!

Hello, saw someone was asking about adding spinach every day, my doctor and nutritionist have advised NOT to use the same green every day, you can get toxic levels of phytochemicals by doing so – they recommend switching greens every 2-3 days for this reason, kale, swiss chard, beet greens, cucumber, leaf lettuce, spinach (of course) dandelion, even sprouts, wheat grass!